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I am happy to tell that our cook book’s English translation is now available to purhase on our publisher’s web pages. Free delivery around the world! Publishing party will be held next week at Hollola Medieval Market, Finland.

We have been working on translating our book into English and the translation work is almost done. I have also stated to plan daily meals for our 9 day long camping event Cudgel War which will be held at July. These two things among some other stuff is taking all my free time currently. It is possible that I am still not able to post recipes in couple weeks or so. But hang on tight, more is coming as soon as possible :). And I found myself thinking of what to cook next at grocery yesterday.. soon it will be a perfect time to cook from Summer fruits and vegetables.

The idea and dream for this blog started years ago. Last year I had a year long challenge and after that I decided it is time. I am still very used to cook without exact measurements so writing down the measurements for the recipes will be a challenge. Medieval food is interesting in that aspect too because the recipes seldom have measurements. So that also means the modernized versions here are only my suggestions. I like to use spices, I know that they were expensive back then but then again the recipes or that type of the food were something that poor people would not have had access to. I want to encourage you to test the recipes and make your own adaptations :) !

How to navigate here?

You will find all the pages at upper column and all of them at the bottom of this blog.

For example you will find all the recipes and short descriptions of 15th century food here. The ones I have blogged in ”Let hem boyle” I will put under the categories too.

For now there is only one basic recipe in ”basic recipe” category, but it is probably the most important one: Almond milk. I have now included one medieval recipe example for the recipe too.

I have uploaded all the 15th century recipes that I made for ”One year and Thousand Eggs” blog here as a starter. Some of them I have modified a little bit.

Also I have modified four older recipes from The Book of Sent Sovi to the 14th century category. For those dishes I only had very poor quality photos so last weekend I made two of them again to get better pictures and to modify the recipes even better.

About the blog

This blog is all about historical cooking, mainly focusing on the medieval and renaissance periods. I hope you'll get inspired and see that cooking is fun and easy. The modernized recipes are only my suggestions, so feel free to try out and make your own! This blog and material is in English and in Finnish.
Check out the upper bar of this page! You can find all the recipes there :) enjoy!